Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account (for 3.8)

Staff Note: Moved to Graveyard - this will never work now that the old style facebook authentication is no longer available.


Facebook Connect
This add-on allows your guests and existing users to login with their Facebook account through Facebook Connect.

There is NO NEED to upgrade or reinstall if you already installed this mod for 3.7

Upgrade to 2.0.6 so that users with the new super long IDs will be able to login.


This mod conflicts with PhotoPost vBGallery!
Quick fix:
Disable the following PhotoPost vBGallery plugins:

• Userinfo Merge
• Integrate Postbit Showthread

Benefits of Facebook Connect

• Users can simply login with their Facebook account without going through the registration process.
• Increase user interaction and your traffic through Facebook notifications and news-feeds!

Features
Facebook users will be able to receive Facebook notifications when:

• There is a reply to their thread or a thread that they're subscribing to
• They receive a new PM

News-Feed will be published on to the user's wall when the user:

• Logs in for the first time
• Replies to a thread
• Creates a new thread

Fetch user data from Facebook
Fetch data like name, location, profile picture and use it on your forums! (NOTE: Some data may not be available for some users)

Automatically befriend user's friends
If any of the user's friends are also registered on the forum, they will automatically be friends!

Professional Install/Upgrade/Support Services
Want this mod professionally installed? It's guaranteed to work on your forum! Download the archive and see INSTALL.html/UPGRADE.html for more details!

Troubleshooting
Server Requirements:
PHP 5

If you get an error:

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL http://www.SITEURL.com/xd_receiver.h...%220.699%22%7D must have the application's callback URL http://www.SITEURL.com/forums/ as a prefix. You can configure the callback URL in the application's settings.

Means that there is something wrong with your callback URL. Your callback URL must be where xd_receiver.htm is; so when you enter [callbackurl]/xd_receiver.htm into your browser you should see a blank page (not a 404 page not found error or anything else).

If you get a continues this means there is a javascript error. Make sure you've done all the template edits correctly (especially footer & navbar). Clear your cache and reload the page.

If nothing happens when you click the Facebook Connect button make sure your callback url domain is the same as you forum domain (the one set in your forum settings) - more specifically make sure that there is a www (or isn't) in both domains.


Many more features may be implemented in the future so keep checking for updates.

[jdmexperts]

Never mind!

[frogster]

Originally Posted by mykkal

So the iframe is too small? Where can we correct dimensions of it?

Did anyone find a solution for disappearing submit/cancel button. Anyone know how to make the iframe bigger?

[smnet]

Sllik,

Regarding the issue i'm having with existing users logging in via facebook.... quite simply, its not working on my board.

At the point where you enter your vbulletin user / pass to associate with facebook I can see that the fbuid is set as a hidden field in the fblogin.php page and posted over to the standard login page with the form.... This is fine, but I am having great difficultly pinning down where in the code this value is requested back in. I cant see anywhere in a plugin or file where POST is checked for this value... If I can find that then I can resume tracing this bug down.

It may be down to other mods i have installed, but i'd really really like this resolved. can you help?

[ByB]

Hi

I have this server problem:

This error (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) means that the website you are visiting had a server problem which prevented the webpage from displaying.

The server run's PHP 5
Opening .../xd_receiver.htm gives me a white screen

Any idea what I do wrong

ByB

[mykkal]

What do we do when a product doesn't seem to have support and we make payments and installations don't occur. Whom do we complain too?

[sbsforum.us]

Originally Posted by mykkal

What do we do when a product doesn't seem to have support and we make payments and installations don't occur. Whom do we complain too?

The best place to do that is with your credit card company/debit card company.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by sbsforum.us

The best place to do that is with your credit card company/debit card company.

That is done actually. But I feel it harms the community when projects are abandoned but still listed. Especially when the majority of the community is interested and waiting.

I didn't know he's abandoned it but he most certainly hasn't answered and questions I've had. He hasn't installed/reinstalled the project or even said that he cannot do it. And I haven't seen him answer anyone else recently other then once.

vBulletin.org has requirements for answering promptly to be a supported product. Every other thread gets an quick reply or you wait til the next day or so. That's not bad at all. This...however...SMH.

[sbsforum.us]

Originally Posted by mykkal

That is done actually. But I feel it harms the community when projects are abandoned but still listed. Especially when the majority of the community is interested and waiting.

I didn't know he's abandoned it but he most certainly hasn't answered and questions I've had. He hasn't installed/reinstalled the project or even said that he cannot do it. And I haven't seen him answer anyone else recently other then once.

vBulletin.org has requirements for answering promptly to be a supported product. Every other thread gets an quick reply or you wait til the next day or so. That's not bad at all. This...however...SMH.

I was able to get mine installed before the new update, what issues are you having maybe myself (granted I am a newb) or someone else would be willing to help you.

[Wakey]

Originally Posted by mykkal

That is done actually. But I feel it harms the community when projects are abandoned but still listed. Especially when the majority of the community is interested and waiting.

I didn't know he's abandoned it but he most certainly hasn't answered and questions I've had. He hasn't installed/reinstalled the project or even said that he cannot do it. And I haven't seen him answer anyone else recently other then once.

vBulletin.org has requirements for answering promptly to be a supported product. Every other thread gets an quick reply or you wait til the next day or so. That's not bad at all. This...however...SMH.

Its only been a couple of days, give him some time. Remember that mod developers are rarely doing this full time so responding to things and doing installs are done in their spare time. And alot of people ask questions, more than one part time person can really answer so some will get missed

Also you need to remember that payments take time to clear (paypal state it can take upto a week before its validated) so maybe silk was waiting for that to happen and when ist cleared and he has the time he will probably get in touch

[TNCclubman]

wow, almost installed this... had a feeling facebook was going to block it somehow...